Themes Debate (Another Category)

by **DiM** on Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:49 pm

i thought the idea was to group maps by theme not by geographic regions but it seems you guys are heading that way 5 out of 6 categs are in fact geographic and 1 abstract.

so where's the theme?

what happened to historical, fictional, battles? those are themes. not south america or europe. :roll:

by **yeti_c** on Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:56 pm

DiM wrote:i thought the idea was to group maps by theme not by geographic regions but it seems you guys are heading that way 5 out of 6 categs are in fact geographic and 1 abstract.

so where's the theme?

what happened to historical, fictional, battles? those are themes. not south america or europe.

You make a fair point - but half of Colemans were the same "Geographical Theme"...

C.

by **Coleman** on Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:00 pm

I did that because Geography ended up huge and I didn't like it.

We could change things from theme to region.

Then everything is a region, except Abstract/Other.

Actually maybe we should have Abstract & Other, abstract being everything that doesn't fit into one of our regions, and other being everything that fits into multiple regions but not whole world.

by **yeti_c** on Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:02 pm

Coleman wrote:I did that because Geography ended up huge and I didn't like it.

We could change things from theme to region.

Then everything is a region, except Abstract/Other.

Actually maybe we should have Abstract & Other, abstract being everything that doesn't fit into one of our regions, and other being everything that fits into multiple regions but not whole world.

Instead of "Abstract & Other" just have "Other"...

The problem is - Goegraphical themes are obvious - because most "Maps" are of a Geographical area?!

C.

by **Qwert** on Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:51 pm

so where's the theme?

what happened to historical, fictional, battles? those are themes. not south america or europe.

Well its easy for some maps to give theme name like History & Battles,but how can we give theme name for maps like Italy,France,Germany,Philipines,Portugal........ these is geographical maps of some Country,there is no story for these map.

by **nagerous** on Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:15 am

Hong Kong is a country, not a region.

by **Coleman** on Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:35 am

nagerous wrote:Hong Kong is a country, not a region.

I thought Hong Kong was a city.

by **rebelman** on Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:38 am

nagerous wrote:Hong Kong is a country, not a region.

since 1997 hong Kong is a special administrative region in the PRC.

by **Coleman** on Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:42 am

This whole thing breathes of pointlessness right now. I'm not sure what good region categories would do since most can tell that by looking anyway, (except maybe dumb Americans) and themes still has the old problem of too many maps fitting multiple themes, and geography being too huge if I don't split it up.

I thought I'd try it and see if it were possible but I have about no confidence in it now. If people more motivated about this category then I am want to work with it and discover some way that might work and be useful then go for it, but I think I'm done.

by **Qwert** on Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:49 am

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Hong Kong is a country, not a region.

Well if you put with-Vatican,Monaco,San Marino,Singapure.
But he never been neutral Country.

by **mibi** on Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:16 pm

Coleman wrote:This whole thing breathes of pointlessness right now. I'm not sure what good region categories would do since most can tell that by looking anyway, (except maybe dumb Americans) and themes still has the old problem of too many maps fitting multiple themes, and geography being too huge if I don't split it up.

I thought I'd try it and see if it were possible but I have about no confidence in it now. If people more motivated about this category then I am want to work with it and discover some way that might work and be useful then go for it, but I think I'm done.

I had several posts about soft categories in another thread that would solve this problem

by **Coleman** on Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:26 pm

mibi wrote:
Coleman wrote:This whole thing breathes of pointlessness right now. I'm not sure what good region categories would do since most can tell that by looking anyway, (except maybe dumb Americans) and themes still has the old problem of too many maps fitting multiple themes, and geography being too huge if I don't split it up.

I thought I'd try it and see if it were possible but I have about no confidence in it now. If people more motivated about this category then I am want to work with it and discover some way that might work and be useful then go for it, but I think I'm done.

I had several posts about soft categories in another thread that would solve this problem

Would you be willing to make a new discussion topic about soft categories?

by **mibi** on Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:40 pm

Coleman wrote:
mibi wrote:
Coleman wrote:This whole thing breathes of pointlessness right now. I'm not sure what good region categories would do since most can tell that by looking anyway, (except maybe dumb Americans) and themes still has the old problem of too many maps fitting multiple themes, and geography being too huge if I don't split it up.

I thought I'd try it and see if it were possible but I have about no confidence in it now. If people more motivated about this category then I am want to work with it and discover some way that might work and be useful then go for it, but I think I'm done.

I had several posts about soft categories in another thread that would solve this problem
Would you be willing to make a new discussion topic about soft categories?

I will try, if i find the time in the next few days.